Greek here, nobody understands us, period. It isn't anywhere close to anything else.

I usually can grab a few things from tone alone for a lot of languages.

But I got a new greek buddy recently, and when she talks on the phone, my ears cannot lock on anything.

Edit: completely unrelated, but I saw your username on lobster on a dead man switch thread (I use Shamir’s Secret for treasure hunts to I thought the DMS idea was cool). Do you happen to have invites? I started to write again, and wanted to post something but I don't have any account.

Yeah, it's so far from other languages that you probably can't make out any of the words at all.

I think I have some invites, can you email me about it?

Just did.

Cheers.

As a Slovenian … I don’t have this superpower because I’m usually the only Slovenian there. There was a conference in NYC once where at least 10 people tried to introduce me to the one other Slovenian there, it was pretty funny.

Slovenia being small, we had already met years ago at a local meetup or something.

Polandball means we all know what "kurwa" means.

There’s a bit in the American TV series Fresh Off The Boat where the parents start shouting very normal sentences in Chinese so that it looks like a fake heated argument, and the salesman offers them a discount to get them to stop scaring the customers.

> If you go to a conference, you can be quite sure no-one understands you apart from your friend who you are talking to

I'd be careful about that. I've overheard others making nasty remarks thinking I wouldn't know what they were saying. Seinfeld had a pretty funny episode about that.

I've watched Polish movies. It doesn't take long before one gets the hang of what others are saying.